Friday, October 12, 2007

HI!

I'm so sorry. I've forgotten where this came from. Thanks, whoever originally pointed me to this! Music is by OOIOO and the song is called "UMO." You may like this video for Sea and Cake, too. It's paperrad-ilicious!

I seen HONKFEST making a ruckus in Harvard Square and it looks like big ol' fun. I'm glad I googled this phenomenon tho, cause I was a little scared that there were so many horn-playing schizos living so near my house! Apparently they came from all over for the HONKFEST and now they are gone. Whew!

I hope everyone knows about Hayao Miyazaki's Gake no ue no Ponyo, what is coming out next year. Hooray! I mean look at that picture! Gracious.

Afanasy Nikitin

Afanasy Nikitin was the first Russian to explore India, which he wound up doing in about 1466.

In history books you will find very little about his dealings with the Shuisky sisters, or Alnus Rugosa, or Das Brick, because I made them up.

Ali Qushji and Perkin Warbeck and Jami the Persian Poet were real people, who sadly never really had anything to do with Russia or Afanasy Nikitin. The Kreml, while a real place, was probably not as fun as it appears herein.

So abandon all pretence of learning about historical Russia, ye who enter here.